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Chronic pain and health status: how do those not using healthcare services fare?

Alison M Elliott¹, Blair H Smith, Philip C Hannaford.

Abstract

Relatively little is known about the clinical importance of symptoms not presented to healthcare services. Using data from a community survey we examined the health status among those with chronic pain who reported using or not using healthcare services. Individuals with chronic pain who had used healthcare services in the previous year had poorer health than symptomatic responders who had not used services, irrespective of the severity of chronic pain. The findings suggest that there is little point in trying to detect and treat individuals not currently presenting to healthcare services with their pain.

Entities: Disease

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Year: 2004 PMID： 15296563 PMCID： PMC1324844

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Gen Pract ISSN： 0960-1643 Impact factor: 5.386

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Chronic pain and health status: how do those not using healthcare services fare?

1. Short-term outcomes of detected and undetected depressed primary care patients and depressed psychiatric patients.

2. The prevalence of symptoms in medical outpatients and the adequacy of therapy.

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7. Classification of chronic pain. Descriptions of chronic pain syndromes and definitions of pain terms. Prepared by the International Association for the Study of Pain, Subcommittee on Taxonomy.

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